Quotes from Julius Caesar

Set honor in one eye and death in th' other, and I will look on both indifferently. I love then name of honor more than I fear death.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

People readily believe what they want to believe.

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

I love treason but hate a traitor.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

All Gaul is divided into three parts.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.